Gives new meaning to the Spanish word: cuidado!
>Bernie,
>There may be several times we have all had a close call and never knew
>it. One of the Grand Teton rangers told me about her partner who had
>cross country skiied through the woods in March, when, on retracing his
>trail, found he had been trailed by a grizzly. Another friend of mine,
>while hunting deer, was observed by his partner on a hill to be tracked
>by a cougar. Then, of course, there was the Mohave rattlesnake I
>nearly stepped on in AZ. It's probably amazing we all survive the
>close encounters we never knew we had.
>Kevin
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>On Tuesday, September 5, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Wild Sanctuary wrote:
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>> At some point, those who have worked in the wild actually begin to
>> believe in their own invulnerability. We take chances we shouldn't
>> when the camera is (or isn't) rolling just to demonstrate what we
>> come to believe is some super connection to the wild natural - a
>> state most of us have little or no clew about despite all the bravado.
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>> Problem is that the wild natural critters - large or microscopic -
>> don't much care about the human sense of the world. They've clearly
>> got their own agendae as Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man), Jane
>> Goodall (who got badly beaten up and nearly killed by one of her most
>> habituated chimps, Frodo, while we were on site at Gombe recording in
>> the early 90s), Dian Fossey (who didn't get iced by one of her
>> beloved gorillas but as an indirect result of them, nontheless), and
>> many other field researchers who have taken one chance too many and
>> discovered too late the folly of their decision(s).
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>> Humans, no matter how we choose to characterize ourselves, are both
>> predator and prey, and that condition is skewed not in our favor
>> every time we meet the world unprepared psychologically and
>> emotionally. In the forty years I've been working in the field, I've
>> come within a hair's breath of oblivion on three occasions - once in
>> the Arctic, once in the Antarctic, and once in Rwanda and god knows
>> how many others I'm not aware of. Three lessons learned: Avoid
>> arrogance, stupidity, and always remain aware of your surroundings.
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>> Bernie Krause
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>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> t. 707-996-6677
>> f. 707-996-0280
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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Wild Sanctuary
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
t. 707-996-6677
f. 707-996-0280
http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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